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Re: Gary Ablett
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
I'm not good at math, but if he took a 100% of $1,000,000 a year pay cut he'd earn nothing?? So a 300% pay cut means he pays us $2,000,000 a year?
Think you're right
I meant playing for around $300k, so approx. 1/3rd of his contracted $1m salary for next year. All a moot point if he is not prepared to buy into our club and our culture, which is of far more importance.
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Re: Gary Ablett
Originally Posted by
Sedat
Think you're right
I meant playing for around $300k, so approx. 1/3rd of his contracted $1m salary for next year. All a moot point if he is not prepared to buy into our club and our culture, which is of far more importance.
Nah, I prefer him paying us $2,000,000 a year to get that premiership he desperately wants. I think he'll retire after Evans & Cochrane block him on his contract.
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
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Re: Gary Ablett
Originally Posted by
Sedat
Would only be a discussion if he is prepared to fully buy in to the team-first mantra and culture we have created at the kennel. No BS special clauses for him like not taking anti-inflammatory medication, which slowed his shoulder recovery.
I doubt very much that he'd want to take a 300% pay cut next year to play for us, but if he did and wanted to for the right reasons, it would be worth a chat.
Originally Posted by
bulldogtragic
I'm not good at math, but if he took a 100% of $1,000,000 a year pay cut he'd earn nothing?? So a 300% pay cut means he pays us $2,000,000 a year?
Originally Posted by
Sedat
Think you're right
I meant playing for around $300k, so approx. 1/3rd of his contracted $1m salary for next year. All a moot point if he is not prepared to buy into our club and our culture, which is of far more importance.
GAJ taking a 300% pay cut is about as likely to happen as him coming to play for us is anyway so it's not a bad figure.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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Re: Gary Ablett
Everyone likened Stringer to Gary Ablett Snr so maybe he wants to play out the rest of his career with his dad.
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Re: Gary Ablett
Originally Posted by
ratsmac
Everyone likened Stringer to Gary Ablett Snr so maybe he wants to play out the rest of his career with his dad.
There's a meme based on Star Wars in that.
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Re: Gary Ablett
Can you post the link BT please
bulldogs are forever not just when they are winning
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Re: Gary Ablett
Originally Posted by
strebla
Can you post the link BT please
Sorry, I meant the subject comments could be a meme. If you google afl or Star Wars meme generator, quite a few generator websites will come up.
Rocket Science: the epitaph for the Beveridge era - whenever it ends - reading 'Here lies a team that could beat anyone on its day, but seldom did when it mattered most'. 15/7/2023
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Re: Gary Ablett
Originally Posted by
ratsmac
Everyone likened Stringer to Gary Ablett Snr so maybe he wants to play out the rest of his career with his dad.
That's pretty Freudian.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.
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Re: Gary Ablett
Originally Posted by
boydogs
One more injury away from retirement IMO. Playing out his days like Cooney did
Disagree. He is playing at a much better level than Cooney. Would never say never, but price would have to be right.
The way I would look at it would whether hebwoukd be an upgrade on the player he replaces.
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Re: Gary Ablett
Yeah, nah.
I can't see him stepping down off his pedestal and joining the club with a Cloke-like attitude. Just not the right cultural fit for mine.
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Good luck, for your sake I hope heaven and hell are really there, but I wouldn't hold my breath
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Re: Gary Ablett
SUITORS STARTING TO EMERGE FOR GAZZA
Journalist Tony Sheahan believes that the Western Bulldogs will emerge as a suitor for former Gold Coast skipper Gary Ablett, if they haven’t already.
Ablett who has struck some of his best form in the past two weeks after being heavily criticised following the loss to Greater Western Sydney in Round 2, has been the topic of much discussion – especially in regards to his future intentions beyond this season.
The dual-Brownlow Medallist has been strongly linked with a move back to Geelong, but Sheahan revealed on SEN’s Gladiators of Sport on Saturday night, that the reigning premiers are also interested in obtaining his services.
“The Western Bulldogs are making a play for Gary Ablett,” he stated.
“The Cats, I understand, have offered a quarter of what he’s on at the Gold Coast as a base salary for 2017, to have him come back – which is $400,000 or within the vicinity of.
“But the Western Bulldogs will be making, if they have not already, a huge play for Gary Ablett.”
Ablett still has one year remaining on his current contract and Suns’ chairman Tony Cochrane has vowed recently that he will ensure that the 32-year-old sees that deal out.
“Gary will serve out his contract at the Gold Coast Football Club, which concludes at the end of the 2018 season. What part of that didn’t you understand?” he said.
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Re: Gary Ablett
One guess who reads WOOF?
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Re: Gary Ablett
400K?
Rather sure up the likes of JJ IMO.
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Re: Gary Ablett
Stuggling to understand why we would want to recruit Gary Ablett.....unless the club feels he might just be the final piece in the puzzle to get that elusive second premiership.
I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken.
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Re: Gary Ablett
There's little doubt that Ablett would be an Akermanis-type on roids running around the forward line. He's an alpha male and would tear it up within F50 for a few years.
But then again, I'm an Internet poster and Bevo is a premiership coach so draw your own conclusions.